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Actors Arashi Rikaku II (R) as a Juggler (Kyoku temari), and Nakamura Kanjaku II (C) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (L) as Lion Dancers (Daikagura)


「曲手まり 嵐璃珏」(二代目)  「大神楽 中村翫雀」(二代目)  「大神楽 中村玉七」(初代)
Hasegawa Munehiro (Japanese, active 1848–1867)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban triptych; 25 x 54.5 cm (9 13/16 x 21 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.35984a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 111; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #323
DescriptionThree left sheets of an incomplete hexaptych.

MFA impressions: 11.35984a-c, 11.41996a-c

Play: Hanagoyomi Haru no Nigiwai
Theater: Kado
花暦春陽賑(はなごよみはるのにぎわい)

Signed Munehiro (on each sheet)
宗広
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.